Another dark moment

I am saddened to hear about the nutrition experiments on native children as they only further highlight the dark moments in Canada’s history. Perhaps intentional then, the disparities in health status among aboriginal and non-aboriginal children continue to rise even today with the lack of public health efforts directed toward them. Such findings help to put Canada at par with our southern neighbours, in whose nation was carried out the famous Tuskegee syphilis experiment where African Americans went untreated for syphilis on completely unethical grounds. Our governments, both provincial and federal, need to demonstrate a strengthening of solidarity with the aboriginal community in light of such findings, and make their well-being a priority that is just as high as for the rest of Canada.